Author Archives: Paul Fletcher

The 2015 NFL season officially started Aug. 9 with the Hall of Fame game, so it’s time for an entry about football. The New York Jets rocked the world when Broadway Joe Namath “guaranteed” a victory over the Baltimore Colts ...

An adoption order severs the visitation rights of a child’s biological grandparents, the Virginia Court of Appeals has held. The court construed a 1997 legislative change that made it clear that General Assembly intended to break the connection between a ...

So you want to do social media marketing for yourself or your law practice, and you don’t know how long you should make your tweets, posts, blog items or headlines. Not to worry. Amanda Walgrove, lead writer at contently.com, a ...

The 2015 Virginia bar exam is in the books. As this column noted last week, 1,143 lawyer wannabes took the exam in Roanoke the week of July 27. Here is one of the essay questions from the actual exam. How ...

Last week’s front page reported that Gov. Terry McAuliffe had tapped Fairfax Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush to fill a seat on the Supreme Court of Virginia. The choice of Roush was widely applauded. She had become the go-to judge ...

Longtime readers of Virginia Lawyers Weekly will recall that in the 1990s, the newspaper regularly featured a column called, “Hearsay.” It provided a lighter look at the law and law practice, and it was a popular welcome respite from some ...

HOT SPRINGS–The Virginia Bar Association held its annual summer meeting at The Homestead July 23-25, and this year’s do had a festive historical theme: It was the group’s 125th summer meeting. The weekend was both a hat tip to the ...

Here’s an idea that should have died at the idea stage. If you have to do any flying in your practice, time to take note. A French company thinks it has found a way to cram more passengers into airplanes, ...

An English-speaking woman who received a collection letter written almost entirely in Spanish can bring a claim against the collection agency under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, a federal judge in Alexandria has ruled. The plaintiff, Caroline Dykes, does ...